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Dear Benny: Walking past Addams Hall the other day, I noticed a sculpture I had not noticed before. It is a set of silhouettes of the fictional Addams Family. Has it always been located at the corner of 36th and Walnut and I just didn’t notice? Also, could you tell me the names of the characters depicted in the piece? –Family Friendly
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Who knew all those HUP employees had musical, dancing and acting talents, as well as medical ones? In student Ryan Leonard’s nearly four-minute video, “Heroes Wash Up,” a cast of HUP employees—doctors, nurses, administrators and even security guards—sing, sway and snap to impart the importance of hand washing.
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Photo credit: Mark Stehle For more than two decades, John Gustafson has helped transport Penn staff, faculty and students from one end of campus to the other, shuttling them from transit stops across Center City and West Philadelphia, to offices, dorms and every point in between.
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Scientists have been probing the connection between rising sea levels and global warming for decades. As temperatures rise, water expands and its density decreases. And warmer air is causing glaciers to melt more rapidly, further swelling the planet’s oceans.
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Photo credit: Candace diCarlo Eric J. Furda, Penn’s dean of admissions, will be fielding questions from potential students and their parents tonight on a live webcast from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
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PHILADELPHIA –- An international team of environmental scientists led by the University of Pennsylvania has shown that sea-level rise along the Atlantic Coast of the United States was 2 millimeters faster in the 20th century than at any time in the past 4,000 years.
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PHILADELPHIA –- Environmental scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and Durham University have employed a novel combination of geological and model reconstructions of wetland environments during a 10,000-year period to address spatial variations in sea-level history and provide quantitative estimates of subsidence along the east coast of England.
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PHILADELPHIA –- Marie Gottschalk and Charlene Compher of the University of Pennsylvania have been awarded 2009-2010 Fulbright Scholarships.Gottschalk, who researches the welfare state and mass incarceration in America, is professor of political science in the School of Arts and Sciences. She received a short-term grant to travel to Japan to lecture at the Nagoya American Studies Seminar for two weeks this past summer.
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PHILADELPHIA –- University of Pennsylvania senior Joshua Bennett of Yonkers, New York has won a prestigious United Kingdom Government Marshall Scholarship for graduate studies in the U.K. He is among 35 winners of the prestigious scholarship.
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PHILADELPHIA –- Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, has been selected by President Obama to chair the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. As head of the commission, Gutmann, president of Penn since 2004 and a prominent political scientist, will advise the President on a range of bioethical issues.